The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe

TARDISFrom DWM #443. Fact fans – I first saw this story, sat in the office where I work, just as the Christmas edition of our magazine (not DWM) was going to press. So I felt very festive indeed.

I saw it again at the BBC press launch, which was held at Television Centre. We journalists filed into a studio alongside kids – kids! – to be regaled with a silly warm-up man, the episode itself and then a Q&A in which kids – kids! – asked most of the questions. As we stood up to leave, grumping about the lack of free drinks (we’re monsters), a curtain roseĀ  revealing, on stage, a TARDIS stood in a winter wonderland… and a bar. It was a Christmas miracle. Continue reading